E-discovery expectations.

AuthorSwartz, Nikki
PositionUP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis - Brief article

For those companies that are not adequately prepared for e-discovery, here are some sobering statistics from The National Law Journal:

* Sixty to 70 percent of all corporate data reside in or are attached to e-mail.

* Ninety-nine percent of all documents today are in digital form, and most are never printed in hard copy.

* Electronic data are obtained in three out of every four lawsuits involving Fortune 500 companies.

A recent report from Forrester Research, "Believe it--E-Discovery Technology Spending to Top $4.9 billion by 2011," said the...

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